"I stand ready. There are concrete investment ideas, for
example in agriculture and infrastructure projects. I would put
in $1 billion. This must generate a profit. My foundation would
benefit from this ... Private engagement needs strong political
leadership,” the hedge fund manager said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der
Standard, as quoted by Reuters.

A long-time advocate for more Western aid to Ukraine, Soros has
openly called on Europe and the West to string together a $50
billion rescue package for Ukraine, on par with the Marshall Plan
Germany received after World War II.

He recently blamed the EU for paying too much attention to
Greece, which the philanthropist and billionaire believes has a
one in three chance of leaving the eurozone, last week he
predicted the odds at 50:50.

Greece has received €240 billion in two bailouts, whereas Ukraine
has only been promised $40 billion, led by the International
Monetary Fund.

In a
article penned himself on the website Project Syndicate,
Soros argues that Ukraine's situation is more pressing than
Greece's, and that Europe shouldn't be so preoccupied with
Greece.

"Yet Europe treats Ukraine like another Greece. That is the
wrong approach, and it is producing the wrong results,"
Soros wrote.

"The West can help Ukraine by increasing the attractiveness
for investors. Political risk insurance is necessary. This could
take the form of mezzanine financing at EU interest rates -- very
close to zero," he said in the interview, published Monday.
Earlier in January, Soros said
an ‘easy money’ policy would only worsen inequality in Europe.

Soros said he considers agriculture and infrastructure profitable
investments.

Once called the "breadbasket of the Soviet Union,”
Ukraine’s economy is heavily reliant on agricultural exports.
Wheat, corn, dairy, sunflower oil, and other main export crops
account for about 25 percent of the country’s total exports.

More and more, Ukraine has allowed foreigners to buy up
agriculture land, which is the second biggest in all of Europe at
41.5 million hectares, or about 70 percent of the total country.

Industry in Ukraine has been on the decline since the country
entered recession in 2012, and has only gotten worse with the
ongoing war in the east, where the bulk of industry and
manufacturing is located. In the past, the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment
Bank (EIB) have funded rail projects, road construction, and
shipping and port industry.